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Briefing paper

Threats to Human Rights Defenders: Six ways companies should respond

20/04/2023

2 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper details how companies should respond to the growing number of threats facing human rights defenders, offering six key recommendations. It offers a definition of human rights defenders, an introduction to the threats they face and an overview of the existing normative framework for the protection of defenders. While this paper is not a […]

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Journal article

Fighting all demons: feminist voices on popular protests in Lebanon and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

07/12/2021

15 pages long

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Fighting all demons: feminist voices on popular protests in Lebanon and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

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For generations, feminists in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have fought all types of oppression and discrimination. Joining and leading popular protests of the last decade or so in different MENA countries was part of their ongoing struggle to gain social justice, equality, and better representation in society. A feminist struggle has its […]

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Briefing paper

The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crises of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

25/11/2021

6 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a global pandemic existing in all social groups across the globe, yet it has largely been ignored in the COVID-19 response and recovery plans. It is evident that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified GBV, including domestic violence and intimate partner violence amongst other forms of violations, but the investments in […]

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Book

What Happens If We Meet? A learning journey on how youth experience civic space and how INGOs can support them

01/06/2021

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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What Happens If We Meet? explores how young people experience shrinking civic space and the role INGOs can play as their partners. The ‘Playbook’ reflects on the realities of youth civic space and invites the reader to join the reflection through a series of exercises. The Playbook brings together the findings generated throughout a four-month Learning […]

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Journal article

Equal Measures 2030: a new approach for advocacy and influencing beyond Beijing +25

24/06/2020

18 pages long

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Equal Measures 2030: a new approach for advocacy and influencing beyond Beijing +25

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This article shares data insights and experiences of Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030), a new global cross-sector initiative that connects advocates and policymakers to easy-to-use data to guide efforts towards gender equality and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2019 EM2030 launched the SDG Gender Index, a tool to track 51 indicators critical to […]

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Journal article

Caution! Feminists at work: building organisations from the inside out

18/03/2020

16 pages long

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Caution! Feminists at work: building organisations from the inside out

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Feminists can organise! But what happens when informal collectives and movements face pressures to formalise and become non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? This is a common dilemma faced by feminists and other social justice activists as their organisations grow and they seek to extend and expand their impact, often seeking outside funding. As activists become professionalised ‘employees’ […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

How to Analyse Change Processes

18/09/2019

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Stories of change are crucial in informing our work as activists. Yet often they are too simplistic, Robin Hood-style morality tales that exclude the messiness and accident of real life. Alternatively, they are too complex, full of caveats and impenetrable language, making it hard to read or digest lessons from them. This research guideline suggests […]

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Journal article

Introduction: development and young feminisms

14/11/2018

14 pages long

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Introduction: development and young feminisms

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This is the introductory article to Gender & Development issue 26(3) Young Feminisms

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Journal article

Young feminists’ creative strategies to challenge the status quo: a view from FRIDA

14/11/2018

17 pages long

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Young feminists’ creative strategies to challenge the status quo: a view from FRIDA

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Young feminist organising is springing up in all corners of the globe – from Mexico to Morocco to Malaysia – powered by brave young women, girls and trans* youth who are creating the change the world needs. FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund – is a young feminist-led organisation that began in 2010. It aims […]

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Journal article

Reading girls’ participation in Girl Up as feminist: club members’ activism in the UK, USA and Malawi

14/11/2018

16 pages long

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Reading girls’ participation in Girl Up as feminist: club members’ activism in the UK, USA and Malawi

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The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign has been criticised by many feminists for perpetuating patronising discourses that see girls and women in the Global North as the saviours of their counterparts in the South, while doing little to challenge underlying global inequalities. This article draws on focus group data with Girl Up club members […]

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